Evolving friendships
By Stephany Harrington, Columnist People in our lives come and go. Some stay for years and others only stay for a short while. Sometimes they just disappear, almost as if they were never there at all. It is hard to cope with the idea that someone could mean a lot to you for so long, and then they fade away. I guess it is part of the facts of life; I am sure I can expect this to happen many more times. In high school, I had a close...
GECO: Latest on the Keystone XL Pipeline demonstrations
By Moriah Adams, GECO Correspondent The protest against the Keystone pipeline is what The New Yorker magazine calls “the most prominent environmental cause in America.” The Keystone XL Pipeline, also known as the TransCanada Pipeline or the Tarsands Pipeline, was proposed to be constructed to take the oil-rich tar sands of Canada across America to be exported. The large environmentalist objections to this pipeline include the...
VoicePlay & The Four Scores coming soon to The Majestic
Courtesy of Jean Grubesky, Majestic Marketing Director Original. Imaginative. Amazing are just a few words to describe VoicePlay who will appear at the Majestic Theater, Gettysburg, PA on Saturday Oct. 26 at 8:00 p.m. without a backup band, VoicePlay is not your typical a cappella show with songs for all ages ranging from Nat King Cole to One Direction infused with great music and comedic fun for the entire family! “I saw...
Minecraft revolutionizes educational opportunities
By Kenneth Lewis, Staff Writer Children born in the 1980s and 1990s probably remember building with Legos. Those little bricks that your parents brought home and you could build anything you wanted out of them. You could be an architect and build a city. You could be an engineer and make cars and planes. You could even be a blacksmith and make swords if that was your game. Given these building blocks, your imagination held the...
Pre-Vet Club visits Evermore Farm
By Brendan Raleigh, Web Editor Members of Gettysburg’s Pre-Vet Club were able to visit Evermore Farm, a community-supported agriculture, on Friday, Sept. 20 to learn about the workings and effects that CSA’s have on their surrounding areas. Pre-Vet Club President Melissa Rich, who has worked at Evermore since last March, organized the trip for this past Friday as a way of showing the club the many benefits of a CSA. “The idea of a CSA...
